Posts Tagged: Google
Saturday CarToon: Google autonomous cars
Three motorheads discuss the implication of autonomous automobiles.
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Morning Lineup – February 8
Let's talk a little more about this internet technology stuff this morning.
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Morning Lineup – November 17
Is Google Plus dead already?
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Social Media and FireCritic.com…The Big Picture
This article serves two purposes:
To help the readers understand what information is shared and where it is shared.
To help other bloggers learn how to engage, share, and grow their social media networks.
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Morning Lineup – July 31
I think today I might have a chance to check out this new upstart "social media" program, Google +.
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Interoperability Assets and Your Department
Hosted by Jeremy Mitchell. Since 2001, "interoperability" has become one of the favorite buzzwords of public safety theorists; but theory, political oversight, and the comparative rareness of these responses (relative to our normal range o…
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Android Applications for the Fire & EMS Service
Last year, almost to the day, I published an article titled "ANDROID IN THE FIRE SERVICE". I had several comments and then got another one today about applications that firefighters use on their android device. Why not the iphone you might ask? The answer is because I use the Droid X and previously used the Droid. I am also fairly certain that almost all of the applications on the Android network can also be phoned on the iphone network.
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I keep wanting a cup …
200th birthday of Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
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What do Ff Wives do during Blizzards and Hubbies Working?
I found the below article and it just cracked me up at all the suggestions for what parents should be doing during their kids snow days.
Read More »How Winona Ryder Is Much Like Many Older Guys In The Fire Service We Know …
[fblike]Because you probably were watching Auburn football last night you may have missed Winona Ryder on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. Watching this NBC video clip reminds me of many old school guys in the fire department. How? Her knowledge of technolo…
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VIDEO: Be The Firehouse Sudoku King With This Smartphone App!
[fblike]The Google Goggles app for iPhone and Android phones was updated today. While that may not seem very exciting, some of the newest features may be the most fun to date. Not only is the barcode scanning improved, but Google Goggles has become the b…
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A PIO Social Media Christmas
I want to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!
What would the holiday be without a good old PIO, PR, social media take on what if the first Christmas happened in the era of Facebook, Foursquare…
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Monitoring Your Child’s Online Safety
More resources from my post yesterday - Cyber Bullies - Reposted from Mashable.com
4 Effective Tools for Monitoring Your Child’s Online Safety.
Read More »How do I Address a Judge?
Back at the office a few months ago while sending out invitations to a public event I had a déjà vu all over again moment. As many times as I or many of my fellow PIO’s send out correspondence to public officials and the like we seem to always end up yelling from our offices “How do I address a Judge in a letter?” I personally have sent these type of correspondence out for over twenty years but seem to have a memory loss each time I’m on the address and salutation lines.
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Quotation “Marks”
I am a quotation mark junkie. I am an offender for the overuse of the marks. If you read through my posts you will see me put quotation marks around quotations marks!
To try to break the habit on both this blog and in my daily PR and marketing writing I scanned Google to find out what the parameters are for using quotation marks.
Only in this day and age would someone have so little time on their hands that they have devoted an entire blog to – well “quotation marks.”
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Where have all the laptops gone?
Airport seating areas used to be filled with business types fighting for the nearest electric outlet to plug in their laptops and do a little work while waiting for a flight. In a crowded waiting area where I would have a while back seen a sea of laptops, I only observed two. The vast majority were thumbing around on their smartphones.
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Android in the Fire Service
I will admit, while I might now a little about web sites...I have not taken the time to learn a ton about my Droid. Simply put, I am not using it to its fullest potential. I am fine with that, but occasionally I will spend the time to add an application, change a setting, or see what is new.
Brian Rueger, a retired USAF computer/ information systems operator AND retired FD Captain, likes to keep me abreast of the news surrounding the Droid. I get email links to new applications and news sporadically.
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Is Social Media Cross Posting Wise?
For the Fire Pio blog as well as for my own department’s dissemination on information via social media I always cross post. This means I use the same facsimile of information I am sending out to Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Some recent articles I have read make me think now that this might not be the best strategy.
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Technology Assessment
Our organization is really embracing some new concepts right now in an effort to improve capability. Sometimes these ideas work and sometimes they do not. But the act of trying these things out are learning opportunities in themselves.
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Morning Lineup – February 12
Is Google trying to take over the world?
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Morning Lineup – November 21
Hardly a week goes by that we don't see a story about how Twitter is, or isn't, on the brink of making billions of dollars for its developers. So far, despite its tremendous popularity, nobody has figured out how to turn it into a money machine. But…
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Blogfest 18 – Google Yourself
Alright all of you guys/gals that are soooo into yourselves like myself. To be honest I am pretty modest...probably more of a weakness actually.
Go ahead and take a minute to google yourself. I will google "Fire Critic" and "FireCritic". Be sure to put …
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Blogfest 17 – A Look at the Fire Critics Office
As I mentioned before, my office at home is utilized when I am not running around everywhere else. I snapped a photo for my mug shot for Firegeezer earlier here. When I snapped the photo for the Buffalo LODD shirt I decided to snap a few others of my off…
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Blogfest 16 – My Buffalo Tribute Shirt Arrived
The mail just came and dropped off my Buffalo Firefighters Tribute/Memorial shirt.
The shirt reads: Buffalo's Bravest. Lieutenant Chip McCarthy Rescue 1, FirefighterJonathan Croom Ladder 7. Gave the ultimate sacrifice in the Line of Duty. August 24th 20…
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Blogfest 15 – Bathtime with Firemen – Funny Commercial
Another great commercial featuring firefighters that will do ANYTHING to get the job done!
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